Setting Categories from the Viewer

Category can be selected on viewer by starting to type the category
name. Selection is made immediately when there is only one matching
category left.

To switch to category selection mode simply type slash (/). Possible
options are shown after Assigning: text in curly brackets and it is
immediately revised once more letters are typed. When a category is
selected you can keep on typing to select the item value. Following image
shows this in action and below it is explanation how this all works.

Figure 5.8. Selecting Categories in Viewer

Follow the category setup below to better understand this explanation.
Starting by typing "/k" the input selection will shift from "Tokens" to
"Keywords" (since K is unique). After that, typing "g" will assign the "good"
keyword immediately to the image. Typing "b" will show B{ad,oring} in the info
box and typing "a" or "o" next will complete the match and assign the result to
the image. Typing "/p" will work similarly and show the partial category match
"P{eople,laces} so you can type "e" or "l" to complete "People" or "Places"
respectively.

Tokens

A..Z

Keywords

Good

Bad

Boring

People

George

Fred

Places

Internet

Exact words

If you want to insert a new word or have words like boa and board you need
to be able to type in the exact word you want to insert or select. This can
be achieved by starting the word with double quote (") and ending with
comma (,). If we would select boa immediately when it is typed you could
not select board and otherwise we would be waiting for more key presses and
you could not select boa.

Figure 5.9. Selecting Exact Words in Viewer

Always start with category selection

If you type two '/'s in a row it will toggle between two different modes.
The default mode described above and a category selection mode. In the
latter mode we go straight back to category selection after a match.
That way you can continually select items within different categories.
It'll still do the fastest match possible so that typing "kbo" will still
match "Keywords/Boring" in the example set above.

Assigning shortcuts

If the current input is blank (e.g. you're not in the middle of selecting
anything) and you hit a function key F1 through F12 (or up to F35 if
your keyboard supports), it will assign the last
matched assignment to that key. You can apply the same assignment to
new images just by hitting the shortcut key. To remove use shift
modifier and the shortcut (Shift+F#). This is useful for quickly assigning
frequently repeating items in your current set of images. It
remembers both the category and the category item. These shortcuts are
remembered until KPhotoAlbum is closed, there is currently no
support for replacing the assigned shortcut.